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Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2019 09:15:43 +0000

  GLOBAL warming increases the risk of flooding because the amount of rain that can fall during an extreme downpour increases exponentially as tem­peratures rise. When more heat-trapping pollutants surround the Earth, more moisture is held in the air, leading to more rainfall. Cutting these emissions is crucial to reducing flood risks for future generations. […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2019 07:54:17 +0000

  OUR long existing technology, the bicycle, is now electric and capable of delivering 350kg (across level ground) through congested city streets as e-cargobikes. Known in the logistics industry as LEFV – or light electric freight vehicles – e-cargobikes have electric pedal assistance. Hu­man and electric powered transport, e-cargobikes, can reduce some trips made by […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2019 16:10:02 +0000

  BARCELONA’S most-visited tourist attraction is also Eu­rope’s longest – enduring construc­tion site – the foundation for the monumental Sagrada Família cathedral was laid March 19, 1882, 137 years ago. The Sagrada Família, (Basilica and Expiatory Church of the Holy Family) is a large unfinished Roman Catholic church in Barce­lona (northern Spain) designed by legendary Spanish […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2019 16:10:51 +0000

    WE think of ninjas as black-clad assassins skilled in martial arts and weaponry who could climb up walls and roofs with the utmost ease and con­veniently vanish behind a puff of smoke. A “Ninja” or “Shinobi” was a covert agent or mercenary in feudal Japan. They practiced espionage to gather intelligence from the […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2019 07:16:45 +0000

    THE tsunami that killed hundreds of people on Sumatra and Java in Indonesia last December is a reminder that such destructive waves are not always caused by earthquakes. Anak Krakatau had been spewing ash and lava for months before a large por­tion of its south-west side had slid off into the Ocean. This […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2019 16:30:04 +0000

    ROUGHLY 10 million Filipi­nos work abroad and ac­cording to the World Bank they remit $33 billion a year. That makes the Philippines the third largest country for remittance behind India ($65bn) and China ($63bn). A blockchain remittance app to transfer money from Hong Kong to the Philippines benefits roughly 200,000 Filipinos work­ing in […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2019 16:20:12 +0000

    THE accumulation of plastic trash in the oceans has wors­ened. Every year some 8 million metric tons of plastic is dumped into the world’s oceans globally. It is said that about 60 per cent of the plastic trash that ends up in the oceans is from just five countries – China, Indonesia, the […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2019 16:20:54 +0000

  VIRGIN Galactic tourism rock­et ship test flight reached the edge of space last month, reach­ing just over 52 miles of altitude, and traveled at 2.9 times the speed of sound. Virgin’s high-altitude launch comes four years after the original SpaceShipTwo crashed during a test flight that killed the co-pilot and seriously injured the pilot. […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2019 11:22:50 +0000

  WORKING out uses up energy, but what if you could convert this energy from your workout to electricity to be used in the gym? In Eco Gym, the equipment works by turning human energy into utility-grade electricity through a micro-inverter technology. When plugged into an outlet, the equipment convert the energy produced through the […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2019 16:20:12 +0000

  IN April 2018, Japan’s Min­istry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) compiled a set of proposals that included hiking the ratio of cashless payments to 40 percent of all transactions by 2025 from less than 20 percent in 2016, and to 80 percent in the future. In Japan, cashless payments are limited because of […]